Top 100 Veronica Roth Quotes
#1. Think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls and growls, and strains toward freedom.
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#2. The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
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#3. I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true
I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine.
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#5. One Choice, Breaks free of his past
One Choice, Embraces his future
One Choice, Exposes the dangers
One Choice, Changes him- forever
One Choice will free him
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#6. But time could not move backward. Just as he had been made, he had to be unmade."
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#7. My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
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#8. Before I chose Dauntless ... I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.
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#9. In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.
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#10. The truth is, I want my choice to drive a knife right through my father's heart, to pierce him with as much pain and embarrassment and disappointment as possible. There is only one choice that can do that.
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#11. Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic."
"That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-
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#13. Maybe just as skin on a hand grows together after pain in repetition, a person does too. But I don't want to become a calloused man.
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#14. I respect you more than anyone. But right now I'm wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn't make your decision.
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#15. Pretty sure we can't call you 'Stiff' anymore, Tris.
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#17. Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.
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#18. Art is, above all things,
both vulnerable and brave.
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#19. There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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#21. From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now
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#22. If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.
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#23. A call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.
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#24. We walk together to the kitchen. On these mornings when my brother makes breakfast, and my father's hand skims my hair as he reads the newspaper, and my mother hums as she clears the table - it is on these mornings that I feel guiltiest for wanting to leave them.
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#25. Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.
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#26. That we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other.
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#27. Don't you dare try to apologize." His voice shakes. "This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.
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#29. I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care.
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#30. It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything
even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.
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#31. They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a stiff, I can't possible be cruel. But they're wrong.
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#32. No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
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#33. We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?
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#34. The steps were crowded with bodies then. Now they are clean and cool, like nothing ever happened here.
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#35. She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.
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#36. But I can be your friend in the meantime. We can even exchange friendship bracelets if you want, like the Amity girls used to.
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#37. Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds."
I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.
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#38. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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#39. Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.
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#40. It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
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#41. Using pain to relieve pain. Doesn't make much sense.
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#42. One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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#43. Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary.
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#44. What did you do?" I scream.
"You die, I die too.
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#45. It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.
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#46. I wish I felt like crying, because tears might bring a sense of release, but I don't.
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#47. I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.
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#48. I imagine hurtling into the air in a car with wings, the energy of the engine and the rush of wind through all the spaces in the walls and the possibility, however slight, that something will fail and I will plummet to my death.
"Yes," I say.
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#49. The goal of my life isn't just ... to be happy.
'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?
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#50. Eric walks toward me, and I back away by instinct. I try not to be afraid of him, but I know how smart he is and that if I'm not careful he'll notice that I keep staring at her, and that will be my undoing.
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#51. I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me
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#52. I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.
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#53. Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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#54. Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is?
Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called ... Divergent.
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#55. How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
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#56. Don't tell me you're going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich
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#57. Officially, of course, we're all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice.
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#58. But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
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#59. Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, I like your hair that way.
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#60. wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us. She
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#61. I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?
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#62. He sits next to me and puts his arm on the back of my chair, leaning close. I don't stare back
I refuse to stare back.
I stare back.
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#63. I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
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#65. Let's go to the cafeteria," Will says, "and eat cake.
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#66. You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.
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#67. It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.
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#68. He moves his thumb in a slow circle over the back of my hand. It is meant to comfort me, but it frustrates me instead. I need to talk to him. I need to look at him.
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#69. No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it.
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#70. You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?"
"Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?
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#71. I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself - when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve.
I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.
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#72. I'd rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.
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#74. Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?'
-Tris
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#75. I see them through the cracks between the walls, their houses not much more than a pile of food and supplies on one side and sleeping mats on the other. I wonder what they do in the winter. Or what they do for a toilet.
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#76. He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice.
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#78. I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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#79. If I always have the sun, maybe I won't be afraid of the dark
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#80. Pain can't make me tell you. Truth serum can't make me tell you. Simulations can't make me tell you. I'm immune to all three.
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#81. You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.
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#82. There is evil in everyone. The first step toward loving someone else is to recognize that evil in yourself, so you can forgive them.
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#83. But please, when you see an opportunity ... " He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them.
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#84. It's like the landscape is an interrupted sentence, one side dangling in the air, unfinished, and the other, a completely different subject.
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#85. I understand why she did it this way, face-first
it was because it made her feel like she was flying, like she was a bird.
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#86. I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.
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#87. Is this because I'm a - " I start to say, but she presses her hand to my mouth. "Don't say that word," she hisses. "Ever." So Tori was right. Divergent is a dangerous thing to be. I just don't know why, or even what it really means, still.
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#88. The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire.
"Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says.
"Wouldn't dream of it," I say.
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#89. This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta.
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#91. Both of us watch the purification happen, and I wonder if he is thinking what I am: that it would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to linger.
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#93. I don't know why I'm arguing with you when I'd really like for you to be right.
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#95. I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.
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#97. She smiles, but her eyes are glassy, like a dormant part of her is fighting its way out and spilling over. The train hisses over the rails, a tear drops down Tris's cheek, and the city disappears into the darkness.
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#98. And he's right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.
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#99. I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.
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#100. I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.
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